TIZIANA LA MELIA is an artist and author born in Palermo, Italy and raised on an orchard-garden in the Okanagan. In her writing and art practice Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, iterative shapes, and symbols that move through layers of diasporic time. Tiziana self-published the poetry album Kletic Kink in 2022 and has a new collection of poetry forthcoming with Talonbooks in spring 2024.